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One of my biggest problems with the movies is that they made Elrond (and all of the other elves) so angry and stodgy, and completely ignored all of the joyful aspects of his character from the books. The elves, especially the Noldor, are a people defined by the way their joy for life is inextricably mixed with sorrow as they fight the long defeat, which is part of what makes them so compelling.

Thanks for the help!

Turns out it was a hardware issue - I eventually found that I couldn’t connect to Wi-Fi in my mint live usb or Windows 10 on that computer either after a bit more testing. A full power off and unplug seems to have reset whatever was wrong with the Wi-Fi adapter and all is working again, thank goodness.

Thanks again for taking the time to help! It’s what I’ve come to love about this community in the two months I’ve been in it!

I’m on Linux mint 22 and use surfshark as my VPN. It has a Killswitch to ensure that I can’t be connected to the Internet when the VPN isn’t active.

But, when I turned on the Killswitch, suddenly all of my Wi-Fi options disappeared completely from my network manager. I can’t connect to the Internet at all - the option is completely gone.

I disabled the Killswitch and rebooted but that didn’t do anything.

I used time shift to revert to a snapshot from yesterday but still no Wi-Fi options.

I tried disabling and stopping the process that turning on the Killswitch enables, but no luck there either.

Uninstalling surfshark doesn’t do anything either and just requires another time shift.

At this point I’m at my wit’s end. I have no idea what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated

The TSA allows food though?

I’ve always been a fan of tyromancy.

Yup that’s exactly what pissed off Houdini so much that he ended his friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle.

They’re out $51,200.

Nope, they’re not. Federal employment law requires that anyone who doesn’t reach minimum wage when making tipped wages must be paid the difference by their employer. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/15-tipped-employees-flsa

These workers are making minimum wage either way, assuming there’s no actual wage theft going on here (which there of course could be).

The actual reason this is bullshit is that their tips from the part of their job that is tipped labor are now going toward time that isn’t tipped labor, meaning that they have a much lower chance of ever making above minimum wage in their tipped hours from the tips that receive.

You’re getting predictably trashed in this thread, but I wanted to thank you for bringing a small semblance of sanity to this ridiculous circle jerk.

Or, y’know, Vietnam.